The environmental impacts of one of the largest tailing dam failures worldwide

The impacts of the SAMARCO iron tailing spill along more than 650 km, between the dam and the plume of the Doce River in the Atlantic, were assessed by the determination of toxic metals. The tailing spill caused a substantial increase in suspended sediment loads (up to 33,000 mg L(−1)), in addition...

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Main Authors: Hatje, Vanessa, Pedreira, Rodrigo M. A., de Rezende, Carlos Eduardo, Schettini, Carlos Augusto França, de Souza, Gabriel Cotrim, Marin, Danieli Canaver, Hackspacher, Peter Christian
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5587546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11143-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5587546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11143-x

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